Regarding the "mainstream Media" I fail to see what they did wrong. From what I've been reading and my own anecdote it's that they didn't follow Trump enough.

Regarding the "mainstream Media" I fail to see what they did wrong. From what I've been reading and my own anecdote it's that they didn't follow Trump enough. They didn't hear his true message, and that was one that appealed to many. You don't have to be racist to buy into it. My anecdote: One fine afternoon, in fact it was the afternoon after Trump won the NH primary, I found myself at home for some reason far too early in the day. I flipped on the TV and came across a news network that I had never seen before. It's called the One America Network. The mission of the One America Network is to bring a conservative viewpoint to the masses through media. Fox, it seems, has become nothing but a bunch of crybaby liberals and for Real Americans (TM) OAN is the new place to be. OK. Let's see what these dipshits have to say. On comes Trump. He is at a rally in (IIRC) South Carolina. OAN had him budgeted for an hour of air time, but stayed with him until he finished. He talked about ObamaCare. It was a horrible system. It was made by Obama but he was in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry (sic - most would say insurance, but- truthiness...). He was going to throw it out and replace it with something better. Did you catch that last part? Had you heard that before? His appeal to his supporters was that ObamaCare wasn't working because it was written for big business by corrupt politicians and not for everyday Americans. And he was going to have a better plan. For them. You don't have to be a racist for that to resonate. And for the mainstream media to miss the nuance in these messages (I'm guessing there were more) is to not understand what the election was truly about. And, as everybody on this board knows, when you don't understand the fundamental concepts the Final Exam is a crapshoot.